{"id":3147,"date":"2013-02-26T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-26T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/petoro.wpenginepowered.com\/nyhet\/petoro-leverer-sitt-nest-beste-resultat-noensinne\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T10:34:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T09:34:36","slug":"petoro-leverer-sitt-nest-beste-resultat-noensinne","status":"publish","type":"nyhet","link":"https:\/\/petoro.no\/en\/nyhet\/petoro-leverer-sitt-nest-beste-resultat-noensinne\/","title":{"rendered":"Petoro delivers second- best financial result ever"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Net income was NOK 150 billion, compared with NOK 133.7 billion in 2011. Total operating revenue was NOK 213.9 billion, up from NOK 188.8 billion the year before. The net addition to reserves for 2012 was 278 million boe.
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Gas output rose by 22 per cent from 2011 while the decline in oil production flattened out, with a drop of just two per cent from the year before after a decade of substantial annual reductions.
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Sales income for gas was higher than for oil and other liquids in 2012. Gas sales earned NOK 106.4 billion, compared with NOK 81.7 billion the year before, and the average gas price rose nine per cent from 2011 to NOK 2.35 per standard cubic metre (scm). Income from oil and natural gas liquids was NOK 96.3 million, on a par with 2011. The oil price averaged NOK 657 per barrel, up four per cent from the year before.
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Investment amounted to NOK 25.8 billion, an increase of 20 per cent from 2011. The biggest capital spending related to high levels of drilling activity on Troll, Gullfaks and Oseberg, continued development of Ormen Lange, and the subsea compression project on \u00c5sgard. In addition came capitalised exploration expenses, so that investment for 2012 totalled NOK 26.4 billion.
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Petoro chief executive Kjell Pedersen is very satisfied with the results for 2012. Figures for health, safety and the environment showed continued improvement, and no fatalities were suffered in Petoro\u2019s portfolio.
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In addition to the good financial and operational results, he is also pleased that the challenges which have concerned Petoro on mature fields are beginning to attract wider attention.
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\u201cWe have good processes on Snorre, but I could wish for better progress towards decisions on other fields,\u201d Pedersen says. \u201cWe must maintain our pressure here to maximise the value of these fields, which is still substantial.\u201d
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He otherwise points to exciting developments in the far north, both for Norway\u2019s petroleum industry in general and for Petoro.
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\u201cWe\u2019ve been active ahead of the choice by the licence for landing oil from Skrugard\/Havis in order to secure a flexible development solution. We need such flexibility to be able to transport increased volumes as a result of expected additional discoveries in the area, and we see that a landfall terminal at Mager\u00f8y could also make a positive contribution to development further east in the Barents Sea. At the same time, it\u2019s gratifying that this will give northern Norway specific spin-offs from the industry.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Petoro was recently awarded 25 per cent holdings in the first two licences in Iceland\u2019s sector of the Jan Mayen Ridge. Pedersen says that the company is thereby well positioned in relation to a possible opening of the Norwegian sector of the continental shelf around Jan Mayen. He is also looking forward with great anticipation to an opening of the south-eastern Barents Sea, where Norway and Russia have reached agreement on a permanent boundary.
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\u201cA number of factors show that the Barents Sea and the far north are emerging more clearly as the next big province for developing Norway\u2019s petroleum sector. It\u2019s important that we as an industry have the expertise and capacity required to manage operations there in a profitable, safe and environmentally acceptable manner \u2013 as we have indeed done on the NCS so far.”
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Pedersen says that a substantial capacity challenge has been the availability of rigs to drill production wells for securing the value in existing fields as well as exploration wells. The industry \u2013 Petoro included \u2013 has largely responded to this challenge by acquiring new units. But calculations show that these rigs will call for 4 000 additional crew with the right expertise over the next two-three years.
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\u201cI see two main areas which must be addressed,\u201d he says. \u201cOne is to make optimum use of existing crew expertise. The other is to recruit new personnel and effectively build their expertise. I would urge both companies and unions to sit down together and discuss what\u2019s needed to meet the crewing challenge. Such a discussion must probably also embrace work schedules.\u201d
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Pedersen says that this proposal is aimed at securing expertise and capacity rather than addressing cost challenges on the NCS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More information on the SDFI results for 2012 is provided in the\u00a0directors\u2019 report\u00a0<\/a>

Contact:
Sveinung Sletten<\/strong>
Head of communications
Petoro AS
51 50 20 24
950 75 554
sveinung.sletten@petoro.no<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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